Re: Computer failure at clean north

[Dan Brosemer <odin@cleannorth.org>]

On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 12:30:36PM -0400, Dirk Becker wrote:
> 'Ello Kathie!
> 
> Hope the vacation is going well for you.
> 
> Sandurz, a clean north consol, has been my residant work computer for my 
> term so far. It seems the poor guy got sick though. Thismorning (tues Aug 
> 2) i came in and it asked me if i should boot from harddrive or disk, so i 
> hit enter - it tried CD drive failed (no boot disk) then went to the 
> alternative of Hard drive boot and just sat there asking for its hard drive 
> (fever maybe?)
> 
> Poor guy. He has been A-ok as far as i can remember, there has been two 
> others who've used that computer but i believe it was too far in the past 
> to have affected it this day. Please send help.

Sounds like a dead HDD.  I'll have a look at it this weekend unless Jim
beats me to it.

-Dan

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 Of man who hangs bloodied and blind
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